De bar der begoocheling (1948) Online
Joe spends a lot of his time at Nick's Pacific Street Saloon. Tom, who credits Joe with once saving his life, stops by regularly to run errands for Joe. Today, Tom notices a woman named Kitty when she comes into Nick's, and he quickly falls in love with her. Meanwhile, a distraught young man repeatedly calls his girlfriend, begging her to marry him. Nick himself muses on all the various persons who come into his bar, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
James Cagney | - | Joseph T. (who observes people) | |
William Bendix | - | Nick (Saloon Owner Who Loves Horses) | |
Wayne Morris | - | Tom (Joe's stooge and friend) | |
Jeanne Cagney | - | Kitty Duval (stage name of Katerina Koronovsky) | |
Broderick Crawford | - | Krupp (a bewildered policeman) | |
Ward Bond | - | McCarthy (a blatherskite) | |
James Barton | - | Kit Carson (a cowboy also called Murphy) | |
Paul Draper | - | Harry (the natural-born tap dancing comedian) | |
Gale Page | - | Mary L. (a woman of quality) | |
Jimmy Lydon | - | Dudley Raoul Bostwick (a young man in love) (as James Lydon) | |
Richard Erdman | - | Willie (the pinball machine maniac) | |
Pedro de Cordoba | - | Arab Philosopher | |
Reginald Beane | - | Wesley (the pianist) | |
John 'Skins' Miller | - | A Tippler | |
Tom Powers | - | Freddy Blick (a stool pigeon and frame-up artist) |
During the Broadway season of 1939-1940, the role of Harry was played by then-unknown Gene Kelly.
The failure of the original copyright holder to renew the film's copyright resulted in it falling into public domain, meaning that virtually anyone could duplicate and sell a VHS/DVD copy of the film. Therefore, many of the versions of this film available on the market are either severely (and usually badly) edited and/or of extremely poor quality, having been duped from second- or third-generation (or more) copies of the film.
McCarthy (Ward Bond) is labeled as a "blatherskite" in the opening credits. The Oxford Dictionary defines a blatherskite as "a person who talks at great length without making much sense".
William Bendix, who plays Nick, originated the part of Krupp on the stage.
The original Broadway production of "The Time of Your Life " by William Saroyan opened on October 25, 1939 at the Booth Theater, ran for 185 performances, won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1940 and closed on April 6, 1940.
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